[ US /ˌdɪspəˈzɛs/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪspəzˈɛs/ ]
VERB
  1. deprive of the possession of real estate
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How To Use dispossess In A Sentence

  • We're all victims of the same policy to dispossess us, " says Muhammad Korshan, a West Bank Bedou activist.
  • Moss allegedly ordered the pair to look for police or traffic officers to attack and "dispossess" them of their service firearms, because the PAC did not have enough weapons to wage its armed struggle. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • In many of the worlds' bigger airports, the homeless and the dispossessed and the plain crooked are increasingly congregating, realising the scope they provide for buckshee food, drink, beds and bathroom facilities.
  • His father once asked for a cock-a-doodle-doo when the word for chicken eluded him. If you don't possess a language, you are dispossessed.
  • The pictures soon came to symbolize the dispossessed of America during the Depression; to the politically minded, they exposed the truth behind the patriotic boilerplate.
  • Writing on Alibayli’s Blog, even some of the dispossessed remain unimpressed by the campaign of street protests. Global Voices in English » Georgia: Opposition protests on hold, new concerns emerge
  • Stick in hand, leathery skin and leather chappals worn to shreds, his dispossession was clear from his finely twirled white moustache and neat beard.
  • Instead of traditional medical techniques, Spiritists use such practices as past-lives therapy, dispossession and exorcism therapies, acupuncture, chromotherapy, yoga therapy, and homeopathy.
  • The most obvious form of this separation is the dispossession of agricultural producers from the land, but it also applies to artisanal production.
  • Australia was only one chapter in the great narrative of empire, whose spread across the globe was everywhere hallmarked by cultural theft and indigenous dispossession.
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